Endangered sawfish at risk from plan to double water extraction from WA’s Fitzroy River, advocates say (opens in new tab)

The Martuwarra Fitzroy catchment is home to four of the world’s five sawfish species, which rely on large groundwater-fed pools to survive the dry seasonGet our , or Conservationists fear a government plan to double groundwater extraction from the Martuwarra Fitzroy River catchment in Western Australia could jeopardise threatened sawfish populations.The untamed river, which to King Sound, is considered the last stronghold for sawfish globally and is home to four of the world’s five species.